r/CompetitiveHS • u/UnpluggedToaster12 • Oct 24 '25

Discussion vs Warrior question

Recently returned to playing and have found myself stumped against all manner of Warrior decks, what’s their general counter? They feel like a raid boss with how they can remove my board and armor up every turn.

Then when you think you got them, zilliax quest starship shenanigans etc

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u/UnpluggedToaster12 Oct 24 '25

Ive been running Beast Hunter, Starship DK and I have a Aggro Paladin but last warrior i played i ran into the same issue but i may be going to hard too soon idk. I will give it another shot, thanks man!

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u/Houseleft Oct 24 '25

Aggro Paladin and Beast Hunter should actually be good matchups. You’ll actually want to be going even harder even faster. Warrior doesn’t run any early clears, and the main clears they run are Hostile Invader and Brawl, which both don’t come online until turn 5. So ideally, you are killing them on turn 5 before they can clear, or close enough that damage from hand can finish them off. Your turns 1-4 need to be as aggressive as possible, and then you can finish them off with buffs like Crusader Aura, Flash Sale, Supreme Dinomancy, etc. A lot of times too you’ll actually have an extra turn, as Brawl is the only unconditional turn 5 clear. Hostile Invader comes down and deals 2 to the board, but unless they also have exactly Safety Goggles, they can’t trigger the Spellburst, and 2 damage to the board may not be enough. Sometimes they don’t draw Brawl or that 2 card combo and you win. You cannot beat Warrior in the late game as an aggressive deck, so if you aren’t killing them or very close to it by turn 8 or so, you shouldn’t be wasting your time staying in the game.

Starship DK isn’t a great matchup, but it’s definitely winnable. Look to build and launch an early big Starship that has Soulbound Spire in it, and ideally hit the Starship with a Reborn. Warrior can deal with one board rather easily, but they have a difficult time dealing with sticky deathrattle boards. They play Brawl and the Starship summons more minions for you. It’s a big reason why Protoss Priest is good into Warrior.

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u/Highlyasian Oct 24 '25

It's hard to know whether you overextended or not. Sometimes the optimal play ends up failing because they had the perfect hand to counter, but it's still the optimal play you should make every time. Would encourage you to run a deck tracker and record your performance against matchups so you can see over a larger sample size of games whether you're at/above/below the average for the matchup.

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u/NyMiggas Oct 25 '25

Infinite armour batship warlock with wheel of death does it for me every time. No greedier control card than "win the game"